June 30, 2025

politics and government

Loans

How the ‘big, beautiful’ bill would hit college student loans

Republicans, however, challenged Biden’s assertion of executive authority over the loan program and won a 2023 Supreme Court ruling that vastly scaled back debt forgiveness. Now, under the Trump-backed budget bill pending before the Senate, the loan program would be simplified and its terms made less generous to borrowers. (The House already passed the bill

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Funds

U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries

The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States’ financial support for Gavi, the organization that has helped purchase critical vaccines for children in developing countries, saving millions of lives over the past quarter century, and to significantly scale back support for efforts to combat malaria, one of the biggest killers globally. The administration has

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